Stories Quotes · Page 102

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

— John D. Voelker

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

— David Christian

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

— Anthony Burgess

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

— Ethan Canin

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

— Vanna Bonta

We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our…

— Susan W. Tanner

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

— William J. Clinton

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always…

— Maynard James Keenan

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go…

— Gabriel Iglesias

It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words .…

— William Moulton Marston

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of…

— Adam Rayner

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be…

— Carl Jung

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed…

— Debra Dean

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I…

— Frank Zappa

I was actually really impressed by how many awkward stories we had, ranging from bad haircuts to one guy told us about…

— Danny Pudi

Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:…

— Takeshi Kitano

Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What…

— Bill Vaughan

I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so…

— Rei Kawakubo

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality…

— Brian Cox

If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your…

— Lorrie Moore

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

— Linda Sue Park

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

— Andy Hargreaves

“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.”

— Stefanos Livos

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

— Stephen King

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

— Maeve Binchy

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.

— George MacDonald

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story,…

— Matthew Weiner

I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.

— Malik Yoba

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

— Robert Englund

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I…

— Colm Toibin

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

— Lucy Hale

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

— Anais Nin

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

— Spike Lee

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

— Garret Dillahunt

Sometimes I make up stories to go along with the pictures I find. And I always wish they would happen to me.

— Crap

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

— Stephen Sondheim